Owner Pose
Kian     The directions weren't too difficult to follow; Kian knows New York City fairly well anyway, because he likes to fly the winds between the buildings.  Granted, he spends most of his time in Manhattan, but Brooklyn is right there.
    He spends a moment on the roof trying to figure out where the accessway is... before remembering Earth buildings don't do that.
    So he drops lightly to the fire escape and taps on the window.
    You'd think he'd been on Earth long enough to do doors and stairs, but no.
Harley Quinn Following directions set by Harley was always a challenge. Specially when she starts with:

"So ya get into Brooklyn..., straight ahead, two rights. Take yoh time looking ovah the abandoned mall. Cool story actually, it's one of the best places foh roller bladin' and trainin'. This one time I went theah with April and....."

Cue ten minutes of a colorful story with Harley, April, some ..., did she say turtles that are ninjas?

So it's pretty amazing that Kian actually lands at her building when she does. It's the hyenas that detect him first, yelping and rushing over to the window that's being tapped, their big heads surging all of a sudden, tongues lolling and their sharp teeth at the ready. Even if they are grinning.

Harley appears soon after. "Kian!" she has an apron over her clothing, "I was baking a cake." she grins. "Come in!"
Kian     "Bud and Lou, right?" Kian asks dubiously.  He remembers them, all right, mainly from chasing Terry ultimately into a dumpster during his training to take down his doppel.
    Maybe not the best introduction to the boys.
    Before slipping in, he lets the hyenas get a sniff and get used to him.  "A cake?  Is this a holiday?"  It could be, for all he knows, and he gives one of the hyenas a scritch behind the ear.  But he does stay close to the window.  That's normal for him, though.  Especially since he'd hate to accidentally knock anything over with his wings.
    "Oh, and I brought this," he adds, rummaging a bottle out of a small pack -- it's a bottle of his dad's high-octane brandy.
Harley Quinn "Of course. It's April's August holiday." Whatever that means. Harley doesn't skip a beat though, reaching over to take the bottle with a swift gesture. "Ahah! The fabled booze. We shall have it with the cake..." she narrows her gaze. "I am suwah it goes great with chocolate." because what doesn't go great with chocolate?

Harley doesn't start drinking just yet though, gesturing for Kian to move into the large room. As for the hyenas? They accept the scritches and sniff Kian a lot. And also don't take abite out of him which is something!

"So, is it time foh the plannin? What did you wanna do? I imagine we will have it be in Wonderland, right? It's only proper..." she sets the bottle on the coffee table and lounges on the couch. "... and besides I got an in with the Queen."
Kian     "Well, as much planning as we can do without having set a date," the birdman says, moving a little further into the room but still tending to stay near the window.  A large room on Earth is not a large room by his lights.  "And it does go well with chocolate, but I can't have both unless I'm somewhere I can stay until I'm sober.  And unfortunately I can't have cake because I know there are eggs in it."
    He's got two hands, so both hyenas are getting attention.  Also, he wouldn't want one to get jealous.  "We might actually need to plan three... well, two.  The one on my world will be easy.  I have no idea what they do in Wonderland.  I don't really have a good idea how joining rites work on Earth, except that they can only be between two.  Which is why we need more than one rite, since the Earth one will be between Gar and Terry."
    He sighs.  "Earth is weird."
Harley Quinn "They do whatevah we want to do! Queen Amy is easy like that..." Harley grins with that telling waggle of her eyebrow that's somehow irreverent but also playful. "So, two rites. I mean, as long as we get to shoot 'em out o' a cannon when it's all done. We actually got one back in Wonderland..." she nods seriously at that and pops the bottle open.

Then takes a sniff.

"Smells like carburant." She says of it. "Strong.." a sagely nod. "And .., hol' up.." she squints. "You mean we gonna go ovah to yoh planet for the wedding. Well! This is turnin' out bettah than I thought.. But so, give me yoh ideas."

She takes a sip from the bottle.
Kian     "I... don't know about the cannon shooting part," Kian says dubiously, "especially since I will be joining them, definitely in the rite on my world, probably in the Wonderland rite.  I've tried researching Earth rites and it doesn't help.  But I don't think they're having a joining in a church.  And the only places that allow more than two to get married only allow it if it's one man and several women, which doesn't help *us*."
    He reaches for the bottle and takes a sip.  "I guess I need to know what's normal for an Earth joining."  He pauses, and snickers.  "Not that /any/ of us have more than a passing acquaintance with 'normal'."
Harley Quinn Harley's face goes through ALL kinds of expressions once she tastes the booze, ending it by licking her chops and then her eyes going wide. "Hollyyyyy! This is goooood.." she exclaims, tempted to take another drink though she keeps it aside for now, corking it back up.

"If your stuff is all like this I imagine your nights out usually last like ten minutes until you are all knocked out!" Bottle is passed over to Kian so he can drink if he wants.

"Okay, weddings in Earth. Well, there's usual the ceremony rite which you can pretty much do what you want, then the photo shoot. Then the party part, which we can have be in Wonderland ..., then they drive away in a car sayin' freshly married or some such!"

"It's all very simple, really." Somehow it seems Harley cut a lot of corners there.
Kian     You would think that booze that strong would clobber a five-foot birdman, but Kian doesn't show any immediate effects.  "This is my dad's brandy.  I... guess I'm used to it."  Which he demonstrates by taking another drink.  "That sounds like how our rite works -- there's a brief ceremony to bless the /tenar'yw/, and then a party.  Sometimes they don't even bother with the rite and just register joining their houses with the head of clan."
    He pauses and blinks twice.  "Hm.  Both Tarik... sorry, Terry and Gar have been made members of my clan, Kaeh.  I think that means they have rights to their own estates on my world -- or more likely, they'll be registered to mine and it will be expanded."
    He looks up and shakes his head clear.  "Sorry.  Um.  So, I guess what I really don't know is what *I* can do for them, since I can't be married with them under Earth law.  I thought maybe we could get around it by having Gar marry Terry, Terry marry me, and me marry Gar so it would be three weddings between two people each... but I guess it doesn't work that way."